Coming Attractions: Eat, drink (cheap) and make a movieSan Jose Mercury News, USASo I'm reading a press blurb about a Berkeley couple spending $1 a meal to better understand what it's like to live on food stamps— and to film the experience for a documentary. And I'm thinking: What about …
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